Nanny Bloomberg On Crackdown On Emergency Room Pain Meds: There Will Be Pain

Nanny Bloomberg strikes again. He’s directing emergency rooms to curtail the pain medications they prescribe to save New Yorkers from themselves. So what if it causes a little pain?

Some critics, as documented by The New York Times, however, felt the move would unnecessarily hurt poor and uninsured patients who use emergency rooms as their primary care doctor. Needless to say, Mr. Bloomberg was not swayed by this line of argument.

“The city hospitals we control, so … we’re going to do it and we’re urging all of the other hospitals to do it, voluntary guidelines. Somebody said, oh, somebody wrote, ‘Oh then maybe there won’t be enough painkillers for the poor who use the emergency rooms as their primary care doctor,’” the mayor said on his weekly radio show with John Gambling. “Number one, there’s no evidence of that. Number two, supposing it is really true, so you didn’t get enough painkillers and you did have to suffer a little bit. The other side of the coin is people are dying and there’s nothing perfect … There’s nothing that you can possibly do where somebody isn’t going to suffer, and it’s always the same group [claiming], ‘Everybody is heartless.’ Come on, this is a very big problem.” (Read More)

What in the world did people do before he came along to regulate every aspect of their lives?

I got heartless for you, Mayor. Let those idiots overdose on their recreational painkillers. I couldn’t possibly care. I’m done caring about idiots who go out of their way to ruin their own lives versus exercising a little self control. I

Government health care rationing of pain relief for healing. Think about deplorable Veterans care. Nudge you into smoking medical marijuana for addiction or boozing. Frail or elderly won’t get comfort pills even. Just starve and dehydrate sickly for quicker death as in the UK Health model. That saves scarce resources so Michael can buy another mansion with security. Desensitization.